What is insulin resistance? What are the symptoms?

Answer 1

I am a insulin resistance type 1 diabetic. I need to take mega doses of insulin to get a decent reading on the monitor. It all means that I get ALL the side affects of the insulin AND the diabetes too like blindness, kidney failure & dialysis, heart attacks and a very short life!
When the insulin does decide to work it really works! sending me into the lowest of lows. Coma time!
The symptoms are needing to much insulin to control your diabetes. This is mostly done in the hospital for about 7-8 days They control everything to find out if you are just over eating or not exercising or it truely is insulin resistance.
Sometimes its just the insulin itself You can ask/tell your doctor to switch it for one month at a time.
If its not insulin resistance stop trying to find short cuts there aren't any either you live with it or you die from it. You chose.
Good Luck.....

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Syndrome X some call it. The body's insuline does not break down the glucose in the blood properly, leading to the development of type 2 diabetes. I have insuline resistancy which always got worse in pregnancy. I have found a low carb diet and exercise is the best treatment to keep my blood levels under control. Check out the link it has a great detailed descriptions.

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Answer 5

let me keep it simple for you! there are two types of diabetes or insulin issues type 1 and type 2. The first type 1 you would know you have at a young age, frequent headaches, dizziness, hypotension episodes. This is becuase there is a defect in the cells located in your pancreas called the islet of langerhans cells, these cells produce your bodys natural insulin, insulin causes glucose to be uptaked into your bodys cell to be utilized if you dont have this then your body cannot metabolize glucose. So you eat cells dont produce insulin, glucose gets high=bad stuff.

Now the second typ type 2 has many a few theories but it seems that it is associated to people who in their adult life do not maintain a as we can say healthy lifestyle and is associated with obesity. For some reason maybe high cholesterol, lack of exercise, etc... they still produce insulin from their cells so they are not completely defective but need a little help cause they arent working in top condition.

we treat type 1 mainly by insulin injections for lifetimes and type 2 with oral glucose controlling medication, people monitor their sugar levels so that they can regulate the amount of insulin to utilize to metabolize the glucose so you can imagine if you use too much what happens?? hope this helped

Answer 6

Insulin resistance occurs when the normal amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas is not able to unlock the door to cells.

Symptoms generally are evident when you develop type 2 diabetes.

Answer 7

Insulin resistance, is when you eat carbs but instead of turning the suger into energy you metabolisim is lower and it turns it into stored fat. It doesn't mean your diabetic you can be insulin resistant with out being diabetic. If you gain weight primarily around your stomach, that is a symptom, and acne, oily skin, problems getting pregnant...etc.

Answer 8

First of all:
-Type I insulin def. has autoimmune causes( i.e. an antibodies directed toward beta cells in pancreas which lead to B cells destruction and in turn no inulin well be secreated) & transmitted by HLA-DR3\DR4 in 90% of those type 1.
You can cosider that there no secretion of insulin in this type. Hence, it is not true to say that there are insulin resistance in type I D.M.

-type II D.M. which has environmental & genetic factors. The environment like obesity which can increase body need of insulin & that but more load on pancrease which will not be tolerable. Genetic factors in type II differ from that in type I. It is not by HLA association, it is by mutation in insulin gene which will lead to insulin synthesis defect.



I'm telling you that to understand that insulin resistance is an overload to beta cells on pancrease to synthesis more insulin than that is normally required in healthy person. this is happen in obese patients & we consider that type II diabetes mellitus. By the way, at the time of diagnosis beta-cell mass will be reduced by 50%.

Answer 9

insulance resistance is when the body will not use the insulin taken either by pill or injection.

EX: without my med I need to take somewhere between 500-700 units a day to have a blood sugar or 270. with my med (actos) I take 250 units for a blood sugar of 185

Answer 10

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